Robert A. M. Stern Quotes

#1. Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.

Robert A. M. Stern

#2. Buildings should not look like Lady Gaga.

Robert A. M. Stern

#3. The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

Robert A. M. Stern

#4. That was the shocking part. Here we were in the midst of everything and this potentially giant story was being told and virtually noone was there.

Robert A. M. Stern

#5. Communities of tract houses, plopped on a grid, represent a way of throwing historical forms around like bouillabaisse.

Robert A. M. Stern

#6. The American dream has always depended on the dialogue between the present and the past. In our architecture, as in all our other arts-indeed, as in our political and social culture as a whole-ours has been a struggle to formulate and sustain a usable past.

Robert A. M. Stern

#7. To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.

Robert A. M. Stern

#8. My cat speaks sign language with her tail.

Robert A. M. Stern